Philosophy,
Culture, and Traditions
Vol.
4 2007
ISSN
1609-2392
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Table
of Contents
Theme: Culture, Diversity, and Shared Values
On
Being Invisible: Socratic Asceticism and the Philosophical Life
D.C. Schindler
The
Ethical Imagination in Bachelard’s reading of Nietzsche Kuan-Min
Huang
The
Negation of Public Values in Neoliberalism:
Market Versus State
or
State Versus Citizenship? Dionysios
G. Drosos
Feminist
Epistemology and Human Values in African Culture B.A.
Lanre-Abass
Tempels
et la
philosophie bantoue Mejame
Ejede Charley
The
Claim of Truth and the Claim of Freedom in Religion Tran
Van Doan
Dialogue
entre la
philosophie bouddhiste et la théorie critique de l’École de Francfort.
Véronique Tomaszewski Ramses Ambivalence
and Rebellion: Yoder and Hauerwas on Democracy
Anthony G. Siegrist
Cosmopolitanism,
Stoicism, and Liberalism
Accidental
Democrats? Calvinism’s Ambiguous Contribution to Modern Democratic
Ideals
James Gerrie
The
Analytic – Synthetic Distinction in Indigenous African Language
Francis Offor Platonic
Dialogue and Transformative Philosophy
Bharathi Sriraman Non-thematic
papers Beyond
Natural Law Stephen
Theron
Faith
and the Sublation of Modernity: Kierkegaard,
Quixote and the Transformation of Fideism
James Mark Shields
Book
Reviews Philip
Manning, Freud and American Sociology, Louis
Groarke, The Good Rebel
Jack
Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Janice Thompson, Psychology
and the Question of Agency
Irene Sonia Switankowsky
CONTRIBUTORS D.C.
Schindler is an Assistant
Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Villanova
University. His forthcoming book bears the working title, Plato's
Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic. Kuan-Min
Huang is an
Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and
Philosophy
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Dionysis G.
Drosos is
Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy in the Department of
Philosophy, Education
and Psychology at the Bolatito
Lanre-Abass is
a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan,
Nigeria, and
is a member of the West African bioethics training programme. She
teaches ethics,
epistemology and contemporary issues in philosophy, and has published
in the
areas of ethics and epistemology. Mejame Ejede
Charley has
taught Philosophy at the Universite de Yaounde 1, the University of
Pretoria,
and the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Tran Van Doan
is
Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy at the National Taiwan University in
Taipei,
Taiwan, and has taught at the Universities of Vienna and Beijing. Born
in
Vietnam, he studied in Italy, Austria, Germany, and France, before
becoming
Professor in Taipei. Veronique
Tomaszewski
Ramses is a social philosopher teaching at York University, Toronto,
Canada. Anthony
Siegrist is
currently a doctoral student in systematic theology at Toronto School
of
Theology, Wycliffe College in Toronto, Canada. Francis N.
Offor is a Lecturer
in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. James Gerrie
is
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University, Sydney,
NS,
Canada. Bharathi
Sriraman is a
doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. James
Mark Shields is an Assistant Professor in East
Asian religions at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. His research
area is
modern Buddhist philosophy and Asian religious and philosophical ethics. Stephen
Theron studied
philosophy at Leeds, Pittsburgh and Stockholm, and has taught at
universities
in Colombia, Sudan, South Africa and Lesotho. He is the author of Morals as Founded on Natural Law (1987),
The Recovery of Purpose (1993), and Philosophy
or Dialectic? (1994). He
lives in Stockholm, where he teaches at the diocesan seminary.
EDITORIAL Philosophy,
Culture, and Traditions (PCT)
is a
publication of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies. A
multi‑lingual
philosophical journal, it appears annually in print format. Selected
papers,
along with a supplementary volume, are published in an electronic
format.
Philosophy,
Culture, and Traditions draws on the important contribution of
Catholic
Christianity to philosophy. Since it aims at the fruitful exchange of
ideas
among philosophy and religious and cultural traditions, it also
includes
studies outside the Catholic Christian traditions.
The journal publishes manuscripts in
all areas of philosophy, although each issue will contain a number of
articles
devoted to a specific theme of particular philosophical interest. To
encourage
dialogue and exchange, the journal will include scholars from
Of course, some may ask ‘Why another
philosophy journal?’
The aim of the World Union is to bring
scholars from the Catholic Christian
traditions into contact and exchange with one another, but equally with
philosophers from other religious and cultural traditions. More
broadly, its
aims are (i) to
initiate and develop contacts with individuals
and associations who are engaged philosophical research and study in,
or in
areas related to, Catholic Christian traditions – and particularly with
those
who, for social or political reasons or on account of geographical
location,
have not been able to do enter into close relationship with
philosophers elsewhere;
(ii) to serve
as a conduit of information about
meetings, conferences, and other matters of common interest; (iii) to
help, when asked, and as far as possible, in
organizing and sponsoring lectures and educational exchanges,
particularly in
those regions where there is an interest in the Catholic Christian
philosophical traditions; (iv) to help,
when asked and as far as possible, in
the publicity and organisation of conferences on themes consistent with
the
work of the World Union and, especially, with world congresses of
Christian
philosophers
Most philosophy journals have little
interest in drawing explicitly on religious and cultural traditions, or
in
pursuing exchanges of ideas between philosophy and these traditions – and some might even be said to be
opposed to this. Again, while some philosophy journals are published by
Christian philosophical organisations or through religiously-affiliated
universities,
Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions
aims explicitly to promote exchanges between religious traditions and
cultures,
and philosophy. Finally, to encourage the principle of exchange, Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions will
be thematic.
This orientation reflects the
intentions of the encyclical Fides et
ratio, and the view that such exchange is of mutual benefit to
philosophy
and religious and cultural traditions, without interfering with the
proper
autonomy of the philosophical enterprise itself. Articles
appearing in the journal will be of a serious
scholarly character and more than just commentaries on issues of
contemporary
concern. Nevertheless, PCT is open
with regard to methodology and approach. The
supplementary volume, published on the Internet,
will include more general articles, discussion notes, interventions, as
well as
a selection of articles from the printed volume. The aim of this
supplementary
volume is to provide additional opportunities for the exchange of ideas. The World
Union hopes that PCT will provide a useful means of
bringing scholars from across
the globe into closer contact with one another – in a
way that draws on insights and values to be found in the
Catholic Christian and other religious and cultural traditions. William Sweet St |